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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.
Foreshadowing
Quatrain
Connotation
Stanza
2. A brief witty poem - often satirical.
Simile
Epiphany
Epigram
Imagery
3. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.
Verbal Irony
Cliche
Stereotype
Apostrophe
4. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.
Solioquy
Dialogue
Audience
Trochee
5. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.
Rising Action
Parable
Character
Conflict
6. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.
Rhyme
Denouement
Falling Action
Elegy
7. The selection of words in a literary work.
Cliche
Narrator
Diction
Blank Verse
8. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.
Persona
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Internal Conflict
Spondee
9. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.
Convention
Complication
Lyric Poem
Imagery
10. The main character of a literary work.
Audience
Protagonist
Aphorism
Stereotype
11. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.
Falling Meter
Lyric Poem
Flashback
Irony
12. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.
Caesura
Dialogue
Metonymy
Oxymoron
13. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.
Legend
Author's Purpose
3rd Person (Limited)
Point of View
14. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.
Onomatopoeia
Closed Form
Enjambment
Parable
15. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.
Ballad
Rhyme
Structure
Meter
16. A long - statle poem in stanzas of varied length - meter - and form.
Closed Form
Conflict
Elegy
Ode
17. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.
Allegory
Rhyme
Stanza
Dialect
18. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.
Parody
Alliteration
Syntax
Understatement
19. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.
Sonnet
Apostrophe
Narrative Poem
Cliche
20. A four line stanza in a poem.
Quatrain
Point of View
Diction
Understatement
21. A figure of speech in which two things are compared using 'like' or 'as'.
Personification
Parable
Simile
Style
22. A story passed down over the generations that was once believed to be true.
Myth
Alliteration
Quatrain
Couplet
23. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.
Epic
Subplot
Denouement
Ballad
24. The series of events that make up a story or drama.
Personification
Audience
Elision
Plot
25. A short saying with a moral.
Connotation
Image
Foot
Aphorism
26. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.
Lyric Poem
Scenes
Act
Meter
27. A historical or literary reference to a person - place - thing - or event that the reader is expected to recognize.
Foot
Allusion
Tone
Author's Purpose
28. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.
Catharsis
Tercet
Parable
Allegory
29. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.
Author's Purpose
Exposition
Climax
Pyrrhic
30. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.
Sonnet
Conceit
Falling Meter
Audience
31. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.
Apostrophe
Solioquy
Blank Verse
Audience
32. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.
Quatrain
Literal Language
Syntax
Legend
33. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.
Subplot
Internal Conflict
Rising Action
Rhythm
34. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.
Internal Conflict
Paradox
Antagonist
3rd Person (Limited)
35. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.
Subplot
Exposition
Onomatopoeia
Pyrrhic
36. A three-line stanza.
Blank Verse
Tercet
Allegory
Allusion
37. A strong pause within a line.
Point of View
Sonnet
Caesura
Pyrrhic
38. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.
Subject
Protagonist
Oxymoron
Suspense
39. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.
Quatrain
Tone
Falling Meter
Dramatic Irony
40. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.
Character
Apostrophe
Diction
Folklore
41. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.
Internal Conflict
Couplet
Rhyme
Parody
42. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.
Exposition
Diction
Climax
Iamb
43. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.
Ode
Point of View
Octave
Iamb
44. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.
Foot
Personification
Elegy
Lyric Poem
45. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.
Point of View
Cliche
Reversal
Satire
46. A love lyric in which the speaker complains about the arrival of the dawn - when he must part from his lover.
Understatement
Ode
Rhythm
Aubade
47. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.
Alliteration
Legend
Connotation
Recognition
48. A poem that tells a story.
Plot
Narrative Poem
Point of View
Subject
49. The emotion or feeling a word creates.
Climax
Protagonist
Closed Form
Connotation
50. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.
Persona
Literal Language
Myth
Analogy